Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Stott

The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man.

John Shirley

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on the lines of philanthropic reforms; but our main duty converges into setting that one glorious beacon of salvation, Calvary's Cross, before the gaze of every immortal soul.

Terry Pratchett

The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

Michael Bloomberg

If it wasn't for O'Flanagan's Pub on Manhattan's Upper East Side, I don't know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man.

Max Lucado

Usually I'm able to prepare a message about two to three weeks in advance.I know some preachers don't like that. They want to be finishing it on Friday before they preach it on Sunday, but our worship team really likes me to get it done way in advance.

Max Lucado

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you.

Max Lucado

No matter what the storm clouds bring, you can face your pain with courage and hope. For two thousand years ago-six hours, one Friday-Christ firmly planted in bedrock three solid anchor points that we can all cling to. For the heart scarred with futility, that Friday holds purpose. For the life blackened with failure, that Friday holds forgiveness. And for the soul looking into the tunnel of death, that Friday holds deliverance.

Mark Skousen

For those of us in the financial world, Black Friday has a strong negative connotation, referring to a stock market catastrophe.

Patricia Cornwell

I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

Lisa Kleypas

On Monday they went out for a private picnic. On Tuesday they went for a carriage drive. On Wednesday they went to pick bluebells. On Thursday they fished at the lake, returning with damp clothes and sun-glazed complexions, laughing together at a joke they didn't share with anyone else. On Friday they danced together at an impromptu musical evening, looking so well matched one of the guests remarked it was a pleasure to watch them. On Saturday Matthew woke up wanting to murder someone.

John Sununu

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

James Johnson

If my boss knew how unproductive I am on Fridays, he wouldn't want me here either.

John Seabrook

We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.

Martin Luther

At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

Mark Strong

I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.

Mark Steyn

There's a kind of decadence about all this: If 9/11 was really an inside job, you wouldn't be driving around with a bumper sticker bragging that you were on to it. Fantasy is a by-product of security: it's the difference between hanging upside down in your dominatrix's bondage parlor after work on Friday and enduring the real thing for years on end in Saddam's prisons....

Nancy Friday

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

Nancy Friday

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Nancy Friday

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nicole Ari Parker

If you had to work 14 hour days, Mondays to Fridays, then you have to keep Saturdays and Sundays sacred.

N. T. Wright

I am convinced that when we bring our griefs and sorrows within the story of God's own grief and sorrow, and allow them to be held there, God is able to bring healing to us ans new possibilities to our lives. That is, of course, what Good Friday and Easter are all about

Marianne Williamson

Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

Mark Consuelos

We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other.

Michael Wilbon

If I have any attribute that serves me well, it's I don't have a long-range plan in life. I have no idea. I just don't look ahead, I really don't. You know when people get out of college and they're talking about their five-year plan. Five-year plan? I got a plan to get to Friday.

Low volume tends to exacerbate any moves, and I think on Friday everyone on Wall Street is going to have skeleton crews on staff.

Share prices rose in knee-jerk reaction to the rally in US markets Friday and a weaker yen.

We're not celebrating because we have more to play. We have to have a good practice Friday to get ready for the next one.

On Friday nights, the town shuts down for football.

Friday was not a question of what went wrong. Drexel has a very good team, and I thought we wrestled pretty well.

Alex Rodriguez

Friday was a demoralizing loss. To get two wins going into the off-day and a tough Tampa series, it's good for our psyche.

Friday (today) and the weekend will tell us what will happen,